Business Facilities Magazine ranks Louisiana Economic Development’s FastStart program as the top workforce development program in the nation for the eleventh consecutive year. Executive Director of the FastStart program Paul Helton, says there is no secret to the success, they just produce results.
“The companies that we serve, they are looking for excellent recruitment opportunities to staff up their workforce and to have the confidence that they can have a trained workforce from day one and LED FastStart delivers on that,” said Helton.
The magazine also ranks Louisiana number one for best industrial electricity rates, New Orleans number one among logistics leaders, and the Port of South Louisiana number one for imports.
Helton says the program incentivizes business development in the state by providing workforce training, recruitment, and selection services for companies.
“Companies that are either moving into Louisiana or Louisiana companies that are expanding. Typically we focus on economic driver companies so manufacturing, IT, logistics, warehousing, headquarters, operations, things like that,” said Helton.
Helton also credits for the program’s use of innovative methods of training for the high marks.
“We’re almost always taking a look at what are the newest technologies and what are the newest tools that we can utilize to go ahead and provide this training for our clients,” said Helton.
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